Question : who has been inpatient at an eating disorder facility & recovered or made significant forward progress?
any thoughts would be awesome :0)
eating disorder facilities

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Answer by DecoDarling
When I was in High School my best friend developed an ED, mainly anorexia, sometimes bulimia. She struggled from 14-20 (which is not long compared to some), it was made mandatory by her parents to go to the doctors every week… She would drink a gallon of water before she went, just to make it look like she was making progress, i.e. gaining weight. Any who.. this went on until she was 18, she eventually checked herself into a hospital at 19 on the urgings of her bulimic boyfriend (he has struggled since her was 12 and is four years older then she). She came out feeling better about herself but went back into the same old routines after a few months. It took her two more tries 3-6 months each. She is now 24 and still struggles everyday but shes in a healthy weight range, she is in good spirits most of the time, her hair is starting to look like it once did and her teeth are slowly being fixed. She knows it was necessary to get help, she was miserable, she was also lucky enough to have many people around that cared and saw the signs right away. Although she is trying to become an actress and this worries us all. So it is baby steps for her anyways.
(as for her boyfriend,,, They are no longer together, just friends. He is actually in a recovery center right now, this is his first trip. He had no choice really, he was hospitalized and very ill.